Hypersonic Reentry: How OSIRIS-REx Transformed Space Science

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned asteroid samples, enabling a vast observation campaign that provided new insights into atmospheric entry using innovative distributed acoustic sensing technology. This success prepares the spacecraft, now OSIRIS-APEX, for its 2029 mission to asteroid Apophis. The OSIRIS-REx mission achieved a historic milestone last year as the first U.S. mission to return an [...]